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Genealogy sites help you discover, organize, and publish your family's history. They streamline the information gathering process, allowing you to search historical documents such as census reports, crew manifests, draft records, and birth and death records, giving you unparalleled access to once-scarce information. The integrated family tree tools organize the genealogical data into a familiar format. Many sites allow you to append your family tree with your own photos, videos, and family documents. Genealogy research sites also help you discover and network with other family members. We've used each of these sites and our comparison chart breaks out the pricing and relevant features so you can find the site that's right for you. If you have questions about how we reviewed these genealogy services, check out our genealogy FAQ.
Genealogy Sites Reviews & Prices
Updated 04-03-2013
| Service Name & Rating: | Price: | Features: | Resources: | Customer Support: | Bottom Line: |
 | Free 14-day trial; $22.95/mo or $119.40/yr for U.S.; $34.95/mo or $239.40/yr for world | Family tree builder; database search; massive record and image archive; member connect; enhanced family tree features; contact genealogy experts | Census records; voter records; birth, marriage & death records; military, immigration & emigration records; newspaper articles; photos; maps; memoirs; public member trees | Most comprehensive service with the largest resource base; easy to navigate | |
 | Free 7-Day trial; $39.95/yr | Ancestor search; records and image archive; family tree builder; annotate and add photos | Census records; birth, marriage & death records; military & immigration records | Well-priced with good family tree builder though archive search could be better, more comprehensive | |
 | $11.95/mo or $79.95/yr | Historical record and image search; annotate, comment, print & save images; share premium images; create a gallery of premium images | Census records; birth, marriage & death records; military & immigration records; newspaper articles; town records; photos; miscellaneous user submitted resources | Phone; email | Great document viewer and fascinating archives; is better for historians than most family-tree builders |
 | Free 7-day trial; $14.95/mo; $29.95/ 3 mos; $79.95/yr | Family tree builder; limited public records; integration with other users' family trees; statistics; famous relative analysis | Social Security death index; other users' family trees | Phone; email | Inexpensive, can yield far-reaching results but limited archives means you need a good bit of family history to start |
 | $59.95-$149.90 for individual DNA test kits | Paternal and maternal DNA tests; migration maps; full history report | Ancestor migration map; unique DNA markers; haplogroup | Email; chat | Expensive service returns highly general and abstract results that shed no real light on the specificity of one's origins |
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